On 01.04.2008, at 06:34, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
Here's a draft. I have never done this before and looking at the
examples you linked to, it might be a bit verbose. Feel free
(anyone) to edit the draft in any way. I am in no way attached to
what compiled here:
[snip]
CouchDB is a distributed document database written in Erlang. The
project entered incubation on February 12th, 2008.
The infrastructure (SVN, JIRA, mailing lists etc) have been set up
and the team started moving source and documentation from their
former homes to the ASF.
s/have/has
Work on CouchDB that has begun earlier is being continued and
committed to the new repository. This includes a major refactoring
and subsequent simplification of the core code base (-500 (ca. 10%)
LOC) and its modularisation. The storage and view engines are now
separate entities that can be worked on independently. This was done
in preparation for the upcoming database compaction feature, which
is in its final stages of development.
At the same time, the mochiweb branch is very active, entirely
driven by Christopher Lenz. The goal of this branch is to replace
the Erlang/OTP inets HTTP server with the more appropriate Mochiweb
package. This is still work in progress, but at the moment, more
than half of our test suite succeeds.
I think the only parts of the recent coding progress that is really
relevant to the board is:
* Removal of the Spidermonkey source from our repository, which
happened before the migration of the code. This means no inclusion of
MPL-licensed code in our repos and our future releases.
* Ongoing work on the mochiweb branch, which replaces the
"forked" (from the standard lib) version of the EPL-licensed "inets"
library with the MIT-licensed mochiweb library. The goal is to have
this branch merged back into trunk before the first release as an
Incubator project.
I'd formulate that as follows:
"Work has continued on removing forked code from other projects from
the CouchDB codebase. This includes Mozilla SpiderMonkey, the code for
which was previously included with CouchDB in slightly modified form.
Instead, it is now treated as an external compile-time dependency via
a custom C wrapper using the SpiderMonkey API. Also, work is currently
in progress on replacing the dependency on a forked version of
"inets", which is part of the Erlang standard library (EPL), with the
MIT-licensed MochiWeb library. For the time being, the MochiWeb code
is included in the CouchDB codebase, mostly because there has been no
official release of that library yet."
Noah Slater's been active to review, move and convert the contents
of http://couchdbwiki.com, the former home of the CouchDB
documentation to the ASF provided MoinMoin installation. That
includes the setup of human readable redirects and the development
of a set of mod_rewrite rules that still need to be set up.
Damien Katz is sill fighting the current host of the couchdb.*
domains to successfully redirect to our new virtual homes.
Not sure if all this detail is needed. The notes on in-progress
infrastructure moving in the second paragraph above should be enough
IMHO.
The IBM software grant that is required for Damien Katz's code
contributions is reportedly on file with the ASF.
As has been pointed out, this software grant has nothing to do with IBM.
Cheers,
Chris
--
Christopher Lenz
cmlenz at gmx.de
http://www.cmlenz.net/
